Section: Latvia
Poroshenko asks Facebook to open office in Ukraine amid reports on its Russia office censoring content of pro-Ukrainian users
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has asked Facebook to open the company’s office in Ukraine amid Ukrainian users complaining that Facebook’s Russia office is biased in moderating the user content from Ukraine. …read more Source: Baltic News...
Russia’s opposition: At least 220 Russian soldiers have fallen in war in Ukraine
In 10 months of the war in Ukraine, at least 220 Russian soldiers have been killed in eastern Ukraine and Russia has spent 53 billion rubles (950 milion euros) supporting its soldiers and separatist rebels, according to the report Putin. War drawn up by the murdered Russian oppositian Boris Nemtsov and his aides. …read more Source: Baltic...
Russian tourists in Palanga have been replaced by guests from neighbouring countries
Forecasts claiming that tourism flows will subside in Lithuania because of the war in Ukraine were not true: Russian tourists have been replaced by guests from neighbouring countries, reports LETA/ELTA, referring to Vakaru ekspresas. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Estonian MFA: e-governance a good tool for implementing association agreement between Eastern Partners and EU
At the opening of an e-government themed seminar in Tallinn on Monday, Estonian Foreign Minister Keit Pentus-Rosimannus spoke to experts from Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia and Moldova about the value of developing e-government and the use of IT solutions in state reform, reported BC the foreign ministry. …read more Source:...
Kuchma: Minsk talks resulted in serious steps towards political solution for war in Ukraine
Serious steps have been taken into the direction of resolving the war in Ukraine with a political solution, former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma said after talks in Minsk with pro-Kremlin separatists on Wednesday. …read more Source: Baltic News...
Latvian MFA: the Eastern Partnership Summit will be a challenge for the EU
On 5-6 May 2015 in Helsingør and Copenhagen, the Foreign Minister of Latvia, Edgars Rinkevics, took part in the meeting of the Nordic and Baltic (NB8) Foreign Ministers, who discussed the issues of energy security, strategic communication and an independent media environment, the European Union (EU) Eastern Partnership and developments in...
Over half Lithuanian companies geopolitical tensions will not affect business
The first results of the Survey of Lithuania’s Non-financial Enterprises shows that most entrepreneurs believe that the events in Ukraine will not affect or insignificantly affect the financial situation and ability to repay loans of the enterprises that they represent. During the study, the heads or financiers of around 500 enterprises in...
Chernobyl fires have not increased radiation level in Estonia
The landscape fires in Ukraine, in the vicinity of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, have not increased the radiation level in Estonia, Public Broadcasting cites the Environment Board. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Illegal migration veering north
The war in eastern Ukraine has pushed a greater flow of illegal migrants across Latvia’s borders, most of them groups of Vietnamese persons trying to get through to Poland, State Border Guard representative Mareks Petrušins told Latvian Radio program Labrīt Wednesday. …read more Source:...
PM: Latvia and the whole of Europe will continue to support Ukraine in its reform process
Addressing the participants of the “International Support for Ukraine Conference” in Kiev today, the Prime Minister of Latvia Laimdota Straujuma pointed out that Ukraine faces immense challenges – resolving conflict in the eastern part of the country, country’s territorial integrity and economic growth, reports BC press...
